Access to Radiology Information

The Access to Radiology Information (ARI) integration profile shares images, diagnostic reports, and related information inside a single network.

Summary

Radiology information (including images and related reports) is accessible within the radiology department and between radiology and other departments within the hospital such as pathology, surgery and oncology. Non-radiology information (such as lab reports) may also be accessed if made available in DICOM format.

Benefits

Reduce Errors and Enhance Patient Care

Multiple Sources Option of Access to Radiology Information (ARI):

• Reduces incomplete imaging records because the display provides consolidated access to additional clinically relevant data from other archives (such as the Cardiology PACS, long-term archive, etc.)

Improve Throughput

Multiple Sources Option of Access to Radiology Information (ARI):

• Prevents manual searches of multiple systems (Radiology and Cardiology PACS, enterprise archive) for pertinent patient data-the PACS provides a consolidated view of DICOM data from multiple systems

Improve Data Accessibility

• Improves access around the hospital-the PACS supports the query/retrieve of DICOM images and data at viewing workstations

Multi-sources option:

• Improves access to data from multiple PACS-the workstation consolidates query results and accesses data stored on physically separate systems (e.g., ultrasound miniPACS, cardiology PACS, and radiology PACS)

Reduce Deployment Cost/Time

• Prevent custom interface specification time and cost-IHE TF provides detailed specifications for a powerful interface, supported and tested by many vendors
• Prevent custom interface implementation time and cost-many IHE Integration Profiles are already supported by many vendor products
• Reduce interface compliance testing time and cost-many implementation variations have been ironed out in systems tested at IHE Connectathons
• Reduces intersystem testing time and cost-many combinations of systems have already been directly tested together at IHE Connectathons
• Reduces custom interface maintenance time and cost by maintaining a single IHE interface instead of multiple custom interfaces

Details

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Systems Affected

This profile includes both enterprise-wide and radiology-department imaging and reporting systems such as:

• Review or diagnostics image softcopy display stations (stand-alone or integrated with a HIS, RIS, PACS or Modality)
• Reporting stations (stand-alone or integrated with a HIS, RIS, PACS or Modality)
• Image management and archiving systems (PACS)
• Report repositories (stand-alone or integrated with a HIS, RIS or PACS)

Actors & Transactions:

Specification

Profile Status: Final Text

Documents:

IHE Radiology Technical Framework:

• Vol. 1 - Section 7 (ARI profile overview)
• Vol. 2 - Sections 4.14 to 4.17, 4.26 to 4.27, and 4.30 to 4.31
• Vol. 3 - Sections 4.44 to 4.45

Underlying Standards:

• DICOM

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